“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”-Rainer Maria Rilke I believe that if I have …
Curating vs. creating: Flickr and learning structure
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw Since learning …
Favorite images from Seoul, Korea for my year of 2011-2012: Curating some future daydreams
I don’t do these types of posts all that often (or ever, if I remember correctly), but I think a highly sentimental posts in order as I am finishing this …
Taking stock of social media: lessons learned from a botanical database
The last post I wrote on the use of DISQUS for crowdsourcing academic data has led my wandering brain to this one, a post taking stock of close to two …
Images from old Seoul from Flickr’s The Commons
There won’t be much by ay of explanation here except to say that The Commons on Flickr are an absolute treasure trove of historical imagery and I wanted to share …
Reflective space, or the merits of social detachment (Michael+ as Google-)
Something struck me just a moment ago as I was furiously scrambling between tabs and Google Analytics to check usage of one of the umpteen sites I seem to be …
Sensemaking and Interactive Scrapbooking
I was thinking a bit about multimodality as I think the Lifestream itself encourages us to do, to experiment with multiple forms of representation, of vantage points, of askew glances, …